Boys of Summer
Chapter Three: Beach Party
Note
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InuYasha's fingers flew across the keyboard typing out invitations to the beach party. Miroku and Shippo had insisted on a beach party since the band got to California, and three cartons of eggs, two cans of anchovies, and a pack of crackers in his hair later, InuYasha gave in. He pushed his chair away from the computer and smiled at his handy work.
BIG PARTY TONIGHT!
FOOD, DRINKS, AND LIVE MUSIC!
MUSIC PERFORMED BY SACRED TAMA!
The dark haired boy behind him ran the towel vigorously over his head causing droplets of water to hit the computer screen in the process. InuYasha turned to Miroku and frowned at his current state of dress, or lack of rather.
"Ok, we're both guys here, so please go put on some clothes!" InuYasha yelled, covering his eyes with the hood of his hunter green jogging jacket.
Miroku looked down at the thin cotton towel tied around his waist and smiled broadly.
"Observe me in all my masculine greatness! Oh, yeah!"
Miroku started randomly flexing, and InuYasha set the printer to print thirty five copies of the flier for the party. Shippo came down the stairs carrying his Gameboy and saw Miroku in all his 'masculine greatness' and screamed.
"Dude, put on some clothes, please!"
InuYasha moved as fast as he could towards the front door with his hood pulled down over his eyes. He opened the door quickly and shouted at his companions before departing.
"Make sure you get the fliers posted around town by the time I get back. I'll be back in an hour."
When the door clicked shut, Miroku and Shippo smirked then started towards InuYasha's bedroom. Before he got halfway up the stairs, Miroku felt his left foot yanked out from under him.
"Shippo, what's the deal?!"
The red haired drummer held up a pair of black sweat pants and white t-shirt.
"We all know you are in love with yourself, but please do me a favor and get dressed!"
Miroku frowned and snatched the clothes away as him and Shippo continued their way to InuYasha's room. Miroku went into the silver haired boy's bathroom while Shippo stared at the room in some what of a disgusted awe. How could someone that was so neat with his music be such a slob? Clothes were everywhere, crumpled up papers on his desk, the only things that were completely spotless were his bed and a picture of his late girlfriend, Kikyo. He carefully picked the picture up and looked into the beaming faces of InuYasha and Kikyo when they were at Six Flags for her birthday. One year later, six weeks away from her seventeenth birthday, a driver high on marijuana would take her life and nearly kill InuYasha. Miroku came back into the room and saw Shippo holding the picture.
"Miroku, do you remember the night that this happened?" Shippo asked staring at the photo.
Miroku nodded and took the picture away from Shippo.
"Yes, but I don't want to dwell on it."
He sat the picture back on InuYasha's night stand and gave a broad smile.
"Let's play a little ATV before InuYasha gets home, ok?"
Shippo broke into a wide grin and bounded downstairs leaving Miroku to follow.
InuYasha was walking up the road, returning home from his typical morning walk. He was walking past the driveway that led up to the house next door to his, Miroku, and Shippo's house when a girl came out of the house and made him stop dead in his tracks. Dark hair, dark eyes...No, it couldn't be.
"Kikyo!" InuYasha called to the girl, making her pause in the middle or the gravel driveway.
"Are you talking to me?" She asked pointed to herself.
InuYasha sighed, this definitely wasn't Kikyo. He began to walk off when she called out to him.
"Wait a second! Did you need something?"
InuYasha shook his head and turned to her.
"No, you just look a lot like someone I used to know."
The girl smiled and held out her hand.
"Well, I'm Kagome. I noticed that you live next door to us!"
"Us?"
"Yeah! Me, my friend Sango, and my cousin Kanna. Don't you have some friends here with you?"
InuYasha gave a slight laugh and kicked at a rock in the driveway.
"No, my two brothers are here with me. They aren't my real brothers though. Me and Shippo were adopted by Miroku's mom and dad."
Kagome shook her head as she opened the mail box and retrieved a newspaper. She turned to face InuYasha and paused, staring from his face to his ears and back again.
"Hey, I know you..."
InuYasha tilted his head to the side confused.
"Your the guy that almost killed us on the interstate! Along with about seven other people!"
"You were the one driving the blue Mustang?"
Kagome nodded, and something in InuYasha's head clicked. his eyebrows met in an angry point as he began his little verbal assault.
"Your the one that was driving like a grandma so don't yell at me!"
"Excuse me?! I was doing the speed limit!"
Sango and Kanna peeped out the window after hearing Kagome yell and saw the silver -haired, dog-eared boy from the interstate. Both girls sighed and went outside to get a very irritated Kagome.
Miroku and Shippo sat playing ATV Off Road Fury 2 when InuYasha came back into the house, followed by three girls. One looked as if she had the intent to kill, the other seemed like she had seen this scene before, and the white haired one was eying the video game with interest.
"You are such a jerk!"
"Kagome, calm down please."
"I'm not a jerk!"
"Cool, ATV!"
Miroku and Shippo looked back and forth between a bickering InuYasha and the girl known as Kagome.
"Um, we didn't get a chance to get those fliers posted..." Shippo called to his adoptive brother hesitantly.
InuYasha ignored Shippo and continued his pointless argument with Kagome. While they were at each other's throats, Miroku made his way over to the other two girls.
"Hello, ladies. My name is Prince Amadeus Wolfgang Radcliff Kaiser the Fourth! I am heir to the throne of Romania. What a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Miroku took the dark haired girl's hand and kissed it gently, sending a blush over her cheeks like a wildfire.
He started towards Kanna, who in turn jerked her hand away quickly.
"Don't touch me."
Miroku shrugged and turned to see Shippo talking to the girl he had just made a move on.
"No, he's not really heir to the throne of Romania and his name is Miroku."
"I kind of figured that. My name is Sango, and that girl over there,"
Sango turned and pointed past Miroku to the ivory haired girl standing next to the door.
"That is Kagome's cousin Kanna. She loves football and video games."
Kanna smiled at Shippo and waved. Shippo smiled back and walked over to her while Sango and Miroku tried to pry InuYasha and Kagome away from each other.
"Your the one that needs to learn how to drive!"
"Like you can talk, dog boy!"
"What did you call me, wench?!"
"I'm not a wench!"
Miroku's eyebrow twitched slightly as he grabbed InuYasha's white t-shirt collar and drug him into the kitchen. Sango looked at a fuming Kagome and gave her a relived smile, and Shippo and Kanna bounded up to the red head's room to play Onimusha 3 Demon Siege. (A/N: Buy Onimusha 3: Demon Siege! IT ROCKS!) Miroku looked at InuYasha and sighed.
"Look, these three girls can be the first ones to be invited to the party!"
"WHAT?! You want that short tempered wench to come to the party?"
Miroku simply smirked at InuYasha's comment.
"Now who does this remind me of? Hmm..."
InuYasha let out a low growl, making Miroku laugh nervously.
"Seriously, InuYasha. Let the girls come to the party. Who knows, you may even fall in love with Ka...gome..." Miroku paused, cursing himself silently for his comment.
InuYasha looked down silently, sadness pouring over his face. His past came flooding back to him as he remembered the crash that took his former girlfriend's life, and nearly took his. He brushed it off and shrugged his shoulders, burying his hands into the back pockets of his blue jeans.
"Fine, whatever."
InuYasha entered the living room again and plucked a party flier from the top of the stack. He handed the paper to Kagome while Sango and Kanna peeped over her shoulders.
"We're having a beach party tonight at seven thirty. We're gonna be performing. Come or don't come, it's your choice. And I'm sorry for what I said." He murmured, Miroku giving a cheesy smile.
Kagome looked at him and smiled innocently.
"We'll be there! Let's go!"
Kagome drug Kanna and Sango out the door, leaving InuYasha to collapse on the couch in relief.
"I hate you, Miroku."
"I know you do. But can you finish hating me after the concert? Or at least until after we get these fliers posted?"
Shippo's eyes flew open, and the Grape-Berry Splash Kool-Aid that he HAD been drinking ended up on the floor.
"Crap! Hurry we need to get those things out!"
The three boys made a mad dash for the door with their arms laden with fliers, InuYasha kicked it opened, the trio rushed towards InuYasha's truck with two hours to go before the party.
"Whoa! Check out all the people!" Kanna said in awe, brushing down the skirt of her silk tie-dye dress.
Kagome and Sango gasped at the lengths the guys had went through to make this party a success. They had a mini bar set up where the local bartender was serving drinks, hamburgers, hotdogs, ribs, and chicken. Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, Mountain Dew, and the diet versions of the non-alcoholic beverages. Some men were setting up huge speakers and lights on a large steel platform. Kagome took this as the place where InuYasha, Miroku, and Shippo were going to be performing. Sango nudged her and pointed to Miroku and InuYasha who walked out onto the stage while Shippo sat as his drum set. Miroku and InuYasha began playing their guitars while Shippo started a steady rhythm on his drums. The hundreds of people there turned to the boys as Miroku began to sing.
"Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next?
What happens next?"
Kagome looked at Sango and winked, making her friend blush furiously. Kanna shushed them when Miroku began his chorus.
"I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before."
The boys all smiled at each other, then Shippo turned on the headset he wore and began to sing his verse, never ceasing playing the drums.
"Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be."
Sango and Kagome giggled and Kanna just smiled, Shippo saw her and waved before starting his chorus.
"I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened."
InuYasha stepped up to the microphone where Miroku was earlier and started to sing. This time, Kanna and Sango giggled as Kagome turned bright red at the song of InuYasha's surprisingly melodic voice.
"Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here."
Kagome let a small smile come across her face as InuYasha let his voice carry over into the chorus.
"I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself
Lift yourself up off the floor ."
All three boys let their voices soar into the final part of the song, earning applause from the large crowd.
"I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before."
InuYasha, Miroku, and Shippo silenced their instruments and took their bow. Before he left the stage, InuYasha spotted Kagome and gave her a wink. Kanna and Sango chuckled.
"Looks like someone likes you."
Kagome blushed and took a sip of her Coke.
"Nah, I think he's just being arrogant."
Kanna laughed and her and Sango went over to the three singers. Kagome looked up at the night sky.
'Does he...Really like me?'
END- Yes! He likes you, dang it! -Ahem- Well, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter! And sorry for the delayed update!